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WASHINGTON, D.C.: On a 99-0 vote, the Senate unanimously confirmed Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State. Expected to be sworn in Thursday, Albright will be the highest-ranking woman to serve in any federal government post and the first to serve as the President?s chief diplomat. Republican senators...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Madeleine Albright, set to become the nation's first woman Secretary of State, began confirmation hearings Wednesday before a friendly Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's been a real love-fest" reports TIME diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer after the first day of hearings. Having served four years as...
Still, she has already charmed potential enemies on the domestic front, including the irascible Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who toasted her last week as a "tough and courageous lady." In fact, such bipartisan appeal was a major factor in the selection of Albright and...
The first U.S. ambassador to the U.N. to have her own Website, Albright understands communication to the point that she calls CNN "the 16th member of the Security Council." She also understands politics well enough to have so charmed Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Jesse Helms that he was among...
Another example of Clinton's political weakness is his decision to oppose granting United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali a second five-year term. The United States is the only nation on the UN Security Council that is fighting Boutros-Ghali's reappointment--and the first Security Council...